Jimmy_D

First time in my lifetime that England have gone further than Germany at the World Cup.

Definitely another plus for VAR that game Right result after South Korea should have had a penalty. Difficult to believe Germany have thrown it away after digging out another chance for themselves the way they did in the last game, but they just haven't turned up this tournament.

VAR hasn't been anywhere near perfect, but one thing I've liked is that referees have been more willing to give penalties against the big teams, knowing they've got VAR to bail them out of mistakes. Before they'd have been scared to give them and more often than not unjustly given the benefit of the doubt.

Oh they didn't deserve that.

Flippin' 'eck!

we've had some fantastic goals at this World Cup

Good goal, but not a result that'll save VAR this time. Serbia will be seething after that.

Jeez, that one was even more blatant than the one on Kane...

Best use of VAR yet to overturn that. Hate seeing penalties like that given.

Good goal by Eriksen VAR intervention certainly seemed a lot less clear and obvious than the rugby tackle(s) on Kane.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-cup/2018/06/19/fifa-refuses-comment-failure-var-award-harry-kane-two-penalties/ Investigation into whether VAR should have awarded Kane those penalties.

All about the results at this stage

Bloody hell. Get IN! We deserve it but jeez we've made hard work of it.

Bertrand must be chewing the furniture watching Young here.

Bloody hell. You could argue that Walker wasn't clear and obvious to overturn, but missing the rugby tackle on Kane is ridiculous.

Ok, I like how we're playing so far!

Looks like a pretty sparse crowd, although was always going to struggle with England playing in the World Cup today.

Regardless of us having a bad season, Bournemouth are competing with us because they've improved an unbelievable amount over the last few years.

Seems to me it's more the commentary on VAR that's been a bit of a shambles. VAR seems to me to have worked more or less exactly how it was intended to so far.

Yeah, definitely think VAR has been a good thing at this World Cup.

Seems weird to be going into a tournament with England as one of the better prepared sides. Now to see whether we can actually turn that into some decent performances.

Who's said he would only move 5-20 miles?

That was a bloody good game of football! I fear my chances of best goal sweepstake are gone with that third Spanish goal. Reminded me of Martina's against Arsenal

Yep, that makes a few contenders for goal of the tournament!

16 people in our work sweepstake. One seeded team each, one non-seeded team. My seeded team... Russia. Still, goal of the tournament is one of the pots and goes to the team it's scored for. Slight outside chance with that second goal